Therapy 'sets off airport alarms'

Patients having radiation treatments should be warned they may falsely trigger security alarms, say experts.

Their advice follows the case of a patient who set off a US airport security alarm at check-in six weeks after receiving radioiodine therapy.

He was interrogated, strip-searched and finally released, after a long delay and much embarrassment, the British Medical Journal reports.

Each year 10,000 UK people are treated with radioiodine for thyroid problems.